Ruining my good mood

Ruining my good mood

Yesterday, I got to corrupt the minds of young people (grade niners) by doing awesome looking chemistry experiments to awe and amaze them, in addition to earning the respect and admiration of some grade 10s by presenting them with test tubes coated with a thin layer of silver mirror on the inside
(A product of the Tollens test for the presence of glucose in carbohydrates) while I also managed to pull off the ammonia fountain about 17 times for the edification of random people, the principle and my chem teacher.

Yes, it's that wonderful time of year known as grade nine tours, when I get to try and convince the youngins to come to my high school. Though the catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide + soap (Dawn, for covering up those nasty odors produced by failed experiments) was going on next to me and moderately impressive, it gave me time to heat up the ammonia until it started to hurt me before proceeding with the fountain. This sounds like a barrel of fun monkeys to you I'm sure, but I love doing this kind of stuff.

Additionally, I got another chance to corrupt young minds this morning, leading tours through my school to the various options. It's great, all I needed was a sign and a sweatshirt with the school on it and they followed me like little lemmings. I got to see one of my favourite jr. High teachers as well ^_^.

Unfortunately, I've got a speech tourney tomorrow -- regionals in fact -- and the particular piece I've chosen requires me to summon up all the bile and anger contained in my little body and regurgitate it all out in one gigantic quivering emotional mess. It's solo acting too, so I've got to be really good at it. It's a piece from Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, from the play I am yours .

So, now I'm faced with the unhappy task of ruining my lovely good mood by thinking about things that make me very angry indeed... Oh well *sigh* On the bright side, if I win, I'll probably be happy again .

Comments (2)

Crazy intenseness!!!

Wow, you're like my new hero... Speech's, being a 'role-model' for the younglings... AND crazy ass experiments of doom??? The only thing that would make you more amazing is if you kicked my ass at Halo... but wow, just... wow...

Halo

LoL I doubt the probability of my kicking anyone's ass at Halo... No Xbox means relatively little exposure to the game :( But, if the opportunity presents I can manage a decent score on starwars battlefront :p